Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this volume offers detailed overviews of philosophical issues raised by biology.Brings together a team of eminent scholars to explore the philosophica...
Author: Olsen, Jan Kyrre Berg / Pedersen, Stig Andur / Hendricks, Vincent F. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key...
Author: Thompson, R. Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Humans have been modifying plants and animals for millennia. The dawn of molecular genetics, however, has kindled intense public scrutiny and controversy. Crops, and the food products which include th...
Author: Foster, John Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Foster (1770 - 1843) was an English essayist who was educated for the Baptist ministry. He later devoted himself to a career in literature. He contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Revi...
Description: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary terrai...
Author: Sismondo, Sergio Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary terrai...
Author: Bryant, John A. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bioethics for Scientists provides an introduction to the ethics of modern life sciences and encompasses a wide range of environmental, social, scientific and medical issues. Subjects such as global wa...
Author: Russell, Nicholas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years governments and scientific establishments have been encouraging the development of professional and popular science communication. This book critically examines the origin of this driv...
Author: Smith, Wesley, J Publisher: Joyous Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Unraveling the mystery of stem cells, Wesley J. Smith illuminates what's on the line in the controversy over using them for research. He describes the emerging science of human cloning-the most radica...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biologyBrings together original essay...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science. A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a uni...
Author: Hunter, Lynette Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Critiques of Knowing" explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. Lynette Hunter elegantly weaves together such vast areas of thought as rhetoric, politics, AI, com...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide here a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins - a controversial dialectic since Darwin publ...
Author: Parsons, Keith M. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this examination of the "Science Wars", where science is debated not as discovering facts of the world but rather constructing artifacts disguised as objective truths, the author cites some major d...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although both philosophers and scientists are interested in how to obtain reliable knowledge in the face of error, there is a gap between their perspectives that has been an obstacle to progress. By m...
Author: van de Poel, Ibo / Royakkers, Lamb?r Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are in...
Author: Seidensticker, Bob Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Everyone knows that today's rate of technological change is unprecedented. With technological breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the soci...
Author: Kuipers, Theo A. F. Publisher: North Holland Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological notion of...
Author: Sarkar,Husain Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What sorts of negotiations would occur among them and unde...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character ...
Author: Spellman, Frank R. Publisher: Government Institutes Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today, only a few people outside of the scientific community are conversant with the tradition of science and its many breakthroughs. The rest are scientifically illiterate. So say Frank R. Spellman a...
Author: Harms, William F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a full...
Author: Lacey, Hugh Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values and looks at challenges to the view, from postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, third-w...
Author: Shapin, Steven / Schaffer, Simon Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise L...
Author: Turner,Derek Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A collection of essays discussing a wide range of sciences and the central philosophical issues associated with them, presenting the sciences collectively to encourage a greater understanding of their...
Author: Floridi, Luciano Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This accessible book explores the development, history and future of Information and Communication Technology using examples from philosophy. Luciano Floridi offers both an introduction to these techn...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume is a unique contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences, presenting the results of cutting-edge philosophersà research alongside critical discussions by practicing social scient...
Author: Aristotle, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: "There is nothing in the in...
Author: N/A Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reductionism as a scientific methodology has been extraordinarily successful in biology. However, recent developments in molecular biology have shown that reductionism is seriously inadequate in deali...
Description: Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi’s contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he ...
Author: Splane, Lily Publisher: Anaphase II Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What Can These Two Topics Possibly Have in Common? . Quantum entanglement . The human search for meaning in the universe Quantum Consciousness: A Philosophy of the Self's Potential Through Quantum C...
Author: Maudlin, Tim Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern physics was born from two great revolutions: relativity and the quantum theory. Relativity imposed a locality constraint on physical theories: since nothing can go faster than light, very dista...
Author: Feenberg, Andrew Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern industrial society is an experiment with a brief past and an uncertain future. In less than two centuries, technology has transformed the globe and given the human race the power to realize its...
Author: Brown, Terrance Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The papers collected in this volume are all derived from the 29th Annual Symposium of JPS.The intent of the volume is to examine the issue of reductionism on the theoretical level in several sciences,...
Author: Kauffman, Stuart A. Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Movement into academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been slow for women and minorities. Not only are women and minorities underrepresented in STEM careers, there...
Author: Rollin, Bernard E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issue...
Author: Ruse, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Michael Ruse provides a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion. Arguing against both extremes - in one corner, the New Atheists; in the other, the Creationists an...
Author: Lloyd,Elisabeth A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book brings together important essays by one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the central topics in philosophy of biology, including th...
Description: The purpose of the book is to deconstruct the process of knowledge discovery and theory construction on the basis of the four concepts mentioned below, and thereby to discuss the circumstances under w...
Author: Norton, Bryan G. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author, trained as a ph...
Author: Kukla, Andre Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Social constructivists maintain that we invent the properties of the world rather than discover them. Is reality constructed by our own activity? Or, more provocatively, are scientific facts--is "ever...
